When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

With the words “I do so promise, God being my guide and Christ my helper,” the Rev. Jerry Lucas was officially welcomed to Pleasant Shade Missionary Baptist Church during a ...

"In recent days, Syria has witnessed a dangerous escalation of violence, brutality, and killing, resulting in attacks on ...

Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Scores of Christians – priests, mothers, children – were caught up in the violence triggered by a revolt that broke out in ...

In a joint statement issued March 8, the patriarchs of Syria condemned acts that threaten civil peace and denounced the ...

Members of Syria's small Christian community on the coast are living in fear after attacks killed more than 1,000 mostly ...

Photos: St. Matthew Church in Norwalk goes to the faithful with Ashes-to-Go ... dating its history back to the prophet Elijah ...

Between March 6 and 10, government crackdowns on supporters of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime resulted in ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...